Employment & Economic Trends

Employment & Economic Trends

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VA Employment Change

Low Wage Workers

Earnings Data by Gender

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Manufacturing employment in Virginia
In a Bureau of Labor Statistics list of “20 Industries with Most Rapidly Declining Wage and Salary Employment, 2016-2026,” 14 of them are from the manufacturing sector.

Who are Virginia’s disconnected youth?
Typically, labor force participation among teens (16-19) and young adults (20-24) is often secondary to their pursuit of education, but there are a significant number of 16-24-year-olds within the out-of-work population who are neither in school nor gainfully employed.

Gender differences in Virginia’s out-of-work population
Of the 650,000 Virginians who are currently out-of-work, 40% are male while the remaining are female. More than 300,000 women are not-in-the-labor-force and account for 48% of the population who are not working and not seeking work.

Computers really are taking our jobs
This technological revolution is possibly more dramatic than the Industrial Revolution that transformed world economies and generated a period of mass dislocation and loss of work in the 18th and 19th centuries.

New BLS Occupation Data
The most important assumption is that over the next decade, the U.S. economy will recover from the deep shock of the 2007-09 recession and return to something approaching full employment by 2020.

Occupation change, 1920-2010
Students entering the workforce today face a dramatically different landscape of jobs than their parents did in the 1980s or their grandparents in the 1950s.

Wage gap for mothers
Is the wage gap is a result of discrimination against pregnant women and mothers or is it simply from self-selection, where mothers make voluntary decisions about their education and career that lead to lower wages?